Comparative Matrix of Architecture Styles
Comparative matrix Style | Definition | Authors | Constructions | Classical | Classical architecture is a mode of architecture employing vocabulary derived in part from the Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, enriched by classicizing architectural practice in Europe since the Renaissance | Kallikrates, Iktinos, Publius, Vespasian | Parthenon, Colosseum, Pantheon | Early Christian and Medieval | Medieval architecture is a term used to represent various forms of architecture popular in Medieval Europe. | Pietro Baseggio,Bernard de Soissons,Diogo de Boitaca | Abbey of Saint-Denis, Salisbury Cathedral, Cologne Cathedral | Romanesque | Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe, characterized by semi-circular arches, and evolving into the Gothic style, characterized by pointed arches, beginning in the 12th century. | José da Cruz Policarpo, Monsignor Julián Barrio, | Lisbon cathedral, Cathedral of Santiago de Compostella, Tournai cathedral | Gothic Architecture | Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. | Afonso Domingues, Roulland Le Roux, John Wastell | Batalha Monastery, Notre-Dame cathedral, Abbey of Saint-Denis | Renaissance Architecture | Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. | Filippo Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Bramante | Basilica di San Lorenzo, Campidoglio, San Pietro in Montorio | Baroque Architecture | Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and